The Avengers were formed to deal with The Hulk, right? He was the first threat. Somehow, he was also at one of the early meetings, too, though, so I’m not sure I’m right about that. Anyway, I didn’t really think Stark was talking to Ross about getting the Hulk to join so much as helping with the team somehow.

Anyway, I really enjoyed this HULK but I’m not too critical.

I liked Ang Lee’s Hulk, too. I definitely liked Bana better (but I sort of just love Eric Bana and think he has this really great pained element to him that makes him a good Hector, Banner or tortured Israeli assassin).

The scene there Blonsky fights the Hulk after his first dose of super soldier serum was money. I wish that would have gone on longer. It was like Spider-Man versus the Hulk. Great stuff. Tons of fun. Loved the big shields the Hulk made out of the weapons.

THIS IS DEFINITELY A BETTER HULK (character)!!! The Hulk needs to talk some, so that was great. Thank GOD we got a “HULK SMASH!!!”. I also liked the fact that we got to see the softer side of the Hulk. The love triangle of Bruce – Hulk – Betty is really awesome. I loved the scene with Betty under the rocks. I also loved it when he saved her from the helicopter and gave Ross the dirt look after. The kiss before Bruce jumps out of the Helicopter was great, too. I thought those were some strong moments. Cliched, yes… but I felt them because I know the love between these characters and it was good stuff.

In fact, as I think about it, I like Connelly better as Betty and Bana better as Bruce, but I might actually like Tyler-Norton better as Bruce-Betty. I think they were more believable together… and that scene where Tyler jumps on top of a transforming Bruce WAS HUGE!!! I don’t know if Connelly would have even been game. Anyway, Tyler did that awesomely and that moment gets a gold star for the director/scripter from me.

I’m just going to say it: Liv Tyler is the first woman we’ve seen in a comic book movie who has the guts and verve of some of the great comic book ladies. I think most of the women that have been cast have that sort of quiet, shy quality. Tyler really was able to show some fire from time to time, and a comic book lady has to have some fire in her belly. Connelly didn’t really. Garner DEFINITELY never whowed it in Elektra or DD.

Fanboy Geek-out: Very angry I didn’t pick up on who Samuel Sterns was. Yo, did anyone else notice that Betty was dating Doc. Samson??? WTF? Lame? A little.

Very happy that this was not really another origin movie. I really liked the way they dealt with that. Gloss over it again real quick and then get into a classic Hulk story. that was very cool. I was really dreading going back through that whole process again. The Hulk is sort of like Superman… people have a rough idea how he works and where it came from. No need to rehash it.

Anyway, I liked it. I’ll get the DVD, you betcha. I liked IRON MAN better, but this was good.

I kinda thought that was the whole point with casting for Banner. Making him a low-key nobody (like Norton) seems much closer to the source material that casting him as a “hottie”. It’s tougher to buy a wounded puppy act from a guy like Bana than Norton-channeling-Bixby.

The script is also a good deal more solid than IRON MAN, though IRON MAN is certainly funnier.

It may make my list of ten best superhero movies if I ever make one.

That was my point. I couldn’t believe Roth even as a post / past his prime tough military guy. Especially with his Napoleonic height standing side-by-side to WIlliam Hurt …I actually felt sorry for the guy. But don’t get me wrong, the movie worked enough and overall, I liked it. There’s no point in picking on so many obvious holes in story and character. Marvel is building thier film library and this will do them well.

I was waiting for another cameo by Samuel L. Jackson, visiting Tim Roth in lockdown at the end and calling him Ringo. Cheap, perhaps, but it would have been cute.

The guys I saw it with wanted to bag on the Ang Lee version when it was all done, but I felt compelled to remind them that THE ADJECTIVELESS HULK was a good film, just not a great one for the character. This one is all about letting The Hulk flaunt his goods. I was surprised they never had him do his enormous leap, but they may have wished to avoid any comparison to the Lee version. All told, I felt I got my money’s worth; YMMV.

I liked Ang Lee’s version much better, thought this Hulk looked even more fake than the last, thought Norton was merely adequate, and LeTerrier’s staging, particularly of the dialogue scenes (symmetrical two-shot, anyone?), was pedestrian at best, and boring as fuck at worst.
As Jimmy said, it will make money, but that doesn’t mean much. The Pirates of the Caribbean made money, but quality? Not so much.
On to Dark Knight…

One scene that’s still bugging me is the end of the campus battle, where we’re somehow supposed to know that the Hulk has escaped with Betty. The scene just cuts away with no indication of that happening. The obvious shot would have been one of Hulk’s trademark leaps, right up and out of those flames. I’m wondering why such an obvious opportunity was missed.

most embarrassing stuff in the movie is the scene with tony stark towards the end. nothing like having him approach the general who is downing shots faster than he can breath, in a bar… about getting a guy he has no control over to join the avengers…whf? ….and the horrible job done melding tim roths head on another persons body. i was embarrassed.

Hulk is a better movie than Iron Man, but most people will like Iron Man better.

Yep. They should have had a more muscular actor. Lou Ferrigno, who played the bribed-by-pizza security guard, is 55. You can tell he was in perfect shape at one point. Roth obviously never was.

Also, the story blew. Ang Lee spent 4/5ths of the movie painfully establishing that due to the unique circumstances of Bruce Banner (subject to prenatal AND later self-experimentation, exposed to gamma bomb radiation, etc), the genesis of the Hulk was like a perfect storm of events, only to undercut it by having Nick Nolte gain illogical powers at the end. Lee’s fixation on making it all seem believable only made it more implausible by calling attention to itself. The concept of the Hulk is simple: it’s Jeckyl/Hyde by way of Frankenstein. It shouldn’t be easy to screw that up.

So count me in as someone who wants more of a “Hulk smash” movie experience. But given that this new version seems like a cross between the TV and the Ultimates Hulk, and that the budget doesn’t look big enough for what I expect from Hulk-sized devastation, I’ll wait for Netflix.